Bottle-corking machine



' A. l. RIS SER. BOTTLE CORKIVNGQ MACHINE," j APPLICATION HLED JAN.2, 1919'. 1,435 739 Patented Nov. 14, 1922..

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BQ'H'LE CORKING MACHINE. APPLICATION FILED JAN-2,1919.

1,435,739." A PatntedNov. 14,1922.

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BOTTLE CORKING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED IAN.2,1919.

Patented Nov. 14, 1922.

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earner ARTHUR I. RISSEE, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO U. S. BOTTLERS MACHINERY COMPANY, OF GHICAGO,-ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

BOTTLE-CORKING MACHINE.

Application filed January 2, 1919.

T all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, ARTHUR I. R-rssnn, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Bottle-(forking Machines, of which the following is a specification.

In a great many classes of bottled goods,

the bottles are closed by applying to the open neck of the bottle a piece of cork or other sealing member carried within a metallic cap screw threaded upon the neck of the bottle. To close such a bottle re quires rotary or spinning movement of the cap with reference to the neck of the bottle. The object of this invention is to provide an automati-cfmachine adapted to mechanically turn or spin a closure device requiring such rotary movement into its proper operative. position with reference to the bottle to be closed. The invention consists in means for carrying out the foregoing objects, which can be easily and cheaply made, which is satisfactory in operation and is not readily liable toget out of order. More particularly, the invention-consists in the many features and details .more fully set forth in the specification and claims.

Referring to the drawings, in which similar numerals indicate the same parts throughout the several views,

Figure 1 is a side elevation of mechanism illustrating this invention in its preferred form.

Figure 2 is a plan view of the mechanism illustrated in Figure 1.

Figure 3 is an end sectional view, taken on the line 83 of Figure 2.

Figure 4 is a detail end view taken on the line 44 of Figure 2.

As a suitable support for the machine, the drawings show two parallel side frames made up of vertical supports 10, top members 12 and bottom members 14, spaced apart and connected together by the angle irons 16, top rods 18 and bottom rods 20. Suitably journa-led in opposite ends of the frame are shafts 22 and 24 carrying respectively drums 26 and 28 over which passes a continuous conveyor belt 30, supported between the drums on the rollers 32, carried by rods 18 and by rollers 34 carried by rods 20. This belt 30 is provided, for the purpose of carrying bottles from the position Serial No. 269,248.

of bottle 36 where the cap is in place on top of the bottle ready to be spun down through the position of bottle 38 where the cap is spun down to the position of bottle 40 where it is removed from the belt. This belt 30 moves continuously, being driven by any suitable source of power, applied in the particular case here illustrated to pulley 44 mounted on an auxiliary shaft 46 which carries a pinion 48 meshing with a gear 50 on shaft 24. This auxiliary shaft 46 also carries a sprocket wheel 52 over which passes a chain 56, engaging sprocket wheel 58 on shaft 60 carried by uprights 10, as shown.

Rigidly secured to shaft 60 is a beveled gear 62 meshing with other beveled gears 64 on the lower ends of vertical shafts 66, journaled in suitable uprights 68 secured to the frame of the machine by any suitable means, as bolts 70 on opposite sides of belt 30, as shown. The upper ends of the shafts 66 terminate respectively in horizontally disposed pulley wheels 72 over each of which passes a belt 74. Journaled for swinging movement in a horizontal plane on each vertical support 68, heretofore described, is a lever arm 76, one such arm lying on each side of the bottle carried by belt 30. These levers 76 are urged toward each other by a retractile spring 78 and the swing of each lever under the control of this spring is regulated by an independent adjusting screw 80 carried on a suitable supporting bracket 82. The swinging or free ends of arms 76 carry respectively bearings 84 and 86 in which are journaled respectively vertical shafts 88 and 90 carrying at their upper ends pulleys 92 over which belts 7 4 pass. Shaft 88 carries an operating wheel 96 and shaft 90 carries a corresponding operating wheel 98. Shafts 88 and 90 are, as shown, placed with their axes angular to each other and to the central axis of a bottle carried by belt 30, the plan being to so arrange wheels rotate fast. enough to spin ,each cap onto the bottle during the short-period of time in which a given bottle is being carried by belt 30 between and passed through the wheels 96 and 9S.

Suitably located on the frame at the sides of the machine are bearing posts 102, carrying horizontally swinging arms 104 in whose free or swinging ends are journaled shafts 106 carrying at their lower ends pulleys 108 and at their upper ends driving wheels 110 adapted, in. the manner hereafter described and as shown in Figures '2 and 4:, to engage the sides of bottles carried by belt 30 and carry them along on said belt 30 between the parts of the cap spii'ining mechanism heretofore described. These arms 10 1- are spring-pressed toward the central axis of the belt by some sort of a suitable spring mechanism, as for instance by the spring device 112 shown in detail in Figure 1, talc ing bearing against the side rails 12 of the frame of the machine and adjustable in the obvious manner by moving nut 114: on belt 116 upon which each spring 112 is mounted.

Over each pulley 108 passes a belt 118 which in turn passes over a pulley 120 on shaft 24:. The belts and pulleys just described are so proportioned and located that the circumferential speed of each wheel 110 at the point where it touches a bottle is in the same direction and at substantially the same rate as the speed of belt 30, so'that as the belt carries the bottle from the position of bottle 36 to the position of bottle 38 and finally the position of bottle 10, the wheels 110 yieldingly grip the bottle at position 38 and move it along with the belt without disturbing its position on the belt, and at the same time hold it upright so that it is not tipped over while the wheels 96 and 93 are spinning down the cap 1-2. Correspondingly, the gear and belt mechanism between shaft 46 and wheels-96 and 98 is so proportioned that these latter wheels move with sufficient rapidity to spin down a bottle cap 42 during the relatively short period of time I when the bottle is in the position of bottle 38, as Shown in the drawings. The spring 78 holds the wheels 96 and 98 yieldingly on the bottle cap so as to allow for variations in size of bottles operated on, and for rregularities in a single bottle and its cap.

In the general operation of the device, power is applied so that all the movable parts described move continuously. An operator places bottles corresponding to bottle 36 on the belt at or soon after it leaves wheel 96 and at the same'time places uponthe top of the bottle the cap 12 which is tobe rotated or spun down to sealed position. The mov- 111g belt 30 carries this bottle through the position of bottle 38 to the position of bottle 40 where the operator removes thebottlefrom the belt with the cap in. sealed position. While passing through the position of bottle 38, the wheels 110 grip and hold the bottle upright while the wheels 96 and 9S spin the cap down in the manner described.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Let ters Patent, is:

1. In a device of the class described, a horizontally movable belt, a pair of horizontally rotatable wheels parallel to and at a distance from said belt, yielding mechanism controlling said wheels adapted to permit an article to be closed, carried by said belt to be passed between said wheels, means for rotating said wheels so that their cir cumferences which are adjacent to each other move in the same direction as the movement of the belt, spring means for yieldingly urging said wheels toward each other, and mechanism adapted to spin a cover onto the article to be closed during the time it is carried by the belt and supported by said wheels.

2. In a device of the class described, a horizontally movable belt, a pair of horizontally rotatable wheels parallel to and at a distance from said belt, yielding lever mechanism controlling said wheels adapted to permit an article to be closed, carried by said belt to be passed between said wheels, means for rotating said wheelsso that their circumferences which are adjacent to each other move in the same direction as the movement of the belt, spring means for yieldingly compressing the lever mechanism bearing said wheels, and mechanism adapted to spin a cover onto the article to be closed during the timeit is carried by the belt and supported by said wheels.

3. In mechanism of the-class described, the combination of a frame, a continuously moving carrier adapted to travel alongsaid frame, a pair of swinging arms pivoted with reference to the frame and located adjacent to opposite sides of said, belt adapted to swing toward and from the center line of said belt, a pair of wheels, one journaled on each of said lever arms, and extending over said belt to a point adjacent to the center thereof, yielding mechanism normally urging said wheel carrying levers toward the center of'the carrier member, means for propelling said carrier member and said wheels, whereby the carrier member and the surfaces of said wheels which are adjacent to the carrier member move in the same direction at substantially the same speed, for the purposes set forth.

t. In mechanism of the class described, the combination of a frame, a continuously moving carrier adapted to travel along said frame, a pair of swinging arms pivoted with reference to the frame and located adjacent to opposite sides ofsaid belt adapted to swing toward and from the center line of said belt a pair of wheels, one journaled on each of said lever arms and extending over said belt to a point adjacent to the center thereof, yielding mechanism normally urging said levers and Wheels toward the center or the carrier member, means for propelling said carrier member and said wheels, whereby the carrier member and the surfaces of said wheels which are adjacent to the carrier member move in the same direction at substantially the same speed, a second pair of levers pivoted with reference to the frame and moving parallel to the first set of levers, means drawing this second pair of levers toward each other, a pair of rotatable wheels, one carried by each of said second levers, and means for rotating the second set of wheels at a greater speed than the first pair of wheels, the Whole so arranged that the first wheels engage an object to be closed which is moved by the carrier and hold it thereon, while the second wheels engage and spin a cover to place upon said object carried.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence of two witnesses.

ARTHUR I. RISSER. l Vitnesses DWIGHT B. CHEEVER, M. S. RosENzwEIs. 

